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David O'Doherty

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Popcorn

On Comedy Central's Alternative Comedy Experience


More David O'Doherty videos

Popcorn
At the Melbourne Comedy Festival
FAQ for the DOD
Me And Shades
Jobs
At BBC Comedy Presents
if.comedy award ceremony 2008
David O'Doherty time
David O'Doherty text song
David O'Doherty

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David O'Doherty on The World Stands Up
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Biography

In 2008, David O'Doherty won the if.comedy award at Edinburgh, two years after first being nominated.

He shot to fame at Edinburgh in 1999 when he won So You Think You're Funny and in 2003 was named Hot Press Irish Comedian Of The Year

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Reviews

Carlsberg Comedy Carnival: Bo Burnham, David O'Doherty
Live Review
Dublin Iveagh Gardens

Carlsberg Comedy Carnival: Bo Burnham, David O'Doherty

With local lad David O’Doherty and teenage American sensation Bo Burnham, this could easily have been billed as a musical comedy double bill, although neither tinkled the ivories quite as much as you might have expected.

Burnham, just 19 but with a much older head on him, is a star of the YouTube generation, racking up millions of views for no-budget videos of himself at the keyboard in his bedroom. The internet has also made him astutely aware of the clichés of stand-up, as it would be hard to think of a comic newcomer ten years ago with such a thorough grasp of hack topics, as explored in one early musical number.

So keen is he to avoid such comedy formulae that, uniquely, he engineers his songs so they don’t have proper endings, as he wants to earn his applause, not reply on the Pavlovian claps a conclusive cord will always prompt.

The tunes, splendid as they are, are just one element of this dizzying, fractious set: a fast-cut montage of smart, surreal-tinged one-liners, near-the-knuckle asides, poetry and even a mock Shakespearean soliloquy. He crams a lot in, and mostly the quality is high.

There are gags here worthy of Emo Philips, as well as pithy, elegantly-expressed ideas that should earn him a place in any book of great quotations. Wise beyond his years, he takes bitter whip-sharp cracks at his ex-girlfriend and affects a precocious arrogance that he intends to be ironic – although there’s no escaping the fact he’s very good at what he does.

He was put off his stride by the pounding bassline from compatriot Reggie Watts’ set in the next marquee, perhaps understandably as there’s a definite beat to much of Burnham’s comedy, whether extrinsically in his wry songs or cunning verse, or more subtly in the rhythms of has gags. He’s certainly used that musical background to master timing, which only heightens his impressive material.

Veteran compere Joe Rooney had half that equation of delivery plus content. He’s a smooth operator with an innate confidence, though much of his material is solid rather than inspired, with pedestrian takes on the disclaimers at the end of adverts or the DVD piracy warnings, topics where other comics have found much better gags.

Yet elsewhere there are great lines – equating the dangers of the internet with more lo-tech fears from his childhood, or his routine mocking the encyclopaedically trivial knowledge of Gaelic football commentators, which he conclusively made his own.

Like Bo Burnham, David O’Doherty rationed the musical content which once defined him. Of course we got his mildly indignant Beefs 2010 to end, plus an odd duet he wrote about an encounter a tiny Shakira, but he was tonight keener to show the breadth of his experience.

This includes a stint as a floor cleaner at a German sausage plant, thus giving him the most limited familiarity with the language, and a long stint at a bicycle repair shop. He offered to help the audience with any bike-related maintenance issues, while tapping irritatingly at his child’s keyboard, in a routine that must have seemed a better idea in theory than it turned out in practice.

But his stand-up routines proved a delight. The idea that superlatives have been devalued was a fine slice of comic pedantry, while his descriptions of how he resolved his frustrations with an ex is a lovely bit of storytelling, evoking almost filmic visions of poetic anger. Good stuff.

Date of live review: Sunday 25th Jul, '10
Review by Steve Bennett
Sheeps Festive Bash
Sheeps Festive Bash

Tuesday 18th Dec, '12- Union Chapel
Pecha Kucka Kilkenny #1
Pecha Kucka Kilkenny #1

Wednesday 6th Jun, '12-
Cat Laughs, Kilkenny: 2012 round-up
Cat Laughs, Kilkenny: 2012 round-up

Tuesday 5th Jun, '12-
Montreal Just For Laughs 2011: One-Stop World Tour
Montreal Just For Laughs 2011: One-Stop World Tour

Thursday 28th Jul, '11-
Somewhere Over the David O’Doherty
Saturday 21st Aug, '10-
Somewhere Over the David O’Doherty
Somewhere Over the David O’Doherty

Saturday 21st Aug, '10-
David O'Doherty at Latitude 2010
David O'Doherty at Latitude 2010

Sunday 25th Jul, '10-
Film With Me In It
Film With Me In It

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Alternative Show
Alternative Show

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David O'Doherty: Let's Comedy
David O'Doherty: Let's Comedy

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David O'Doherty : Original Review
David O'Doherty : Original Review

Monday 1st Oct, '07-
David O\'Doherty Creates Something New Under The Su
David O\'Doherty Creates Something New Under The Su

Show - Edinburgh Fringe 2003 -
David O\'Doherty in World Champion of Some Things
David O\'Doherty in World Champion of Some Things

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David O\'Doherty: Grown Up
David O\'Doherty: Grown Up

Show - Edinburgh Fringe 2005 -
David O\'Doherty Is My Name
David O\'Doherty Is My Name

Show - Edinburgh Fringe 2006 -
O'Comic Gala
O'Comic Gala

Show - Montreal 2006 -
David O\'Doherty: Small Things
David O\'Doherty: Small Things

Show - Edinburgh Fringe 2002 -
O'Comics 2008
O'Comics 2008

Show - Montreal 2008 -
Jimmy Fallon Gala
Jimmy Fallon Gala

Show - Montreal 2008 -
I Can't Sleep
I Can't Sleep

Show - Melbourne 2009 -
Brighton Comedy Festival: Best Of The Fest
Brighton Comedy Festival: Best Of The Fest

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